Citizen Science for CA Naturalists

Welcome to our ongoing effort to catalog citizen science and other public participation in scientific research (PPSR) projects for UC California Naturalists and other citizen scientists. We invite you to browse the listed projects or enter key words (like birds, youth, invasive, coast, Alameda, etc.) in the search box above to find projects in your area. It's a great way to stay involved and keep developing your skills as a natural scientist!

A vast majority of the information in the database was gathered from project websites and may be out of date. We encourage you to contact projects directly to get involved and learn about most recent opportunities. If you work with a listed project and would like to add to, update, or correct the information we have, please email cghdixon@ucdavis.edu. Also, please consider filling out the "PPSR perspectives" survey. Click here to access the survey, which will help guide this project in the coming year.

If you know of a project not on our list, please go to the "tell us about a project" link on the left so we can list the project here. Thanks for your help!

Special thanks goes to the National Science Foundation Informal Science Education program and the Stephen J. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation for supporting this database of projects.

Understand where redwoods grow well today in order to better predict how climate change will impact the redwood forest and where the redwood forests of tomorrow will thrive.

Participant Activities

Find a redwood tree in a park, in your own backyard, or in a botanical garden around the world. Use the free Redwood Watch iPhone application powered by iNaturalist or your own camera to take a photo of the tree and submit it online.

Data Entry

Cell Phone

Other Participant Activities

Online news and community forum

System Studied

Plants, Climate Change

Geographic Scope

International

Region

All (see 'geographic scope')

Location

Anywhere you find a Redwood - park, backyard, botanical garden, etc.

Location - Map

114 Sansome Street, San Francisco, CA 94104

Time Commitment

Other (see Other Information below)

Volunteer Qualifications

Volunteers must have an iPhone in order to download and use the Redwood Watch app.

If you work with this project and would like to add to or update the information below, please email cghdixon@ucdavis.edu.

If you know of a project not on our list, please go to the "tell us about a project" link on the left so we can list the project here. Thanks for your help!